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Love Of Your Life.
Grammy family how do you go about celebrating your first nomination? Do you start practicing martial arts, to ward off a stage bum rushing Kanye West ('Jesus IS King' by the way)? Or do you look to protest like 'The College Dropout', "HEY 'Lover' by Taylor Swift was one of the best albums of 2019"! She should be up here. Well if you're Maggie Rogers-who in what has been HER year alongside King Princess, receiving her very first nomination for 'Best New Artist' (which she should easily win as she also should have the overall 'Best Artist of the Year' nomination and album award for her January, already best of '19 classic 'Heard It In A Past Life' (the second I heard the atmospheric intro on 'Say It' on Spotify I was hooked like I already knew she would be my favourite artist))-you celebrate with champagne and Domino's after dancing around your living room, hand microphone singing, according to her Instagram. Is there a better combination Papa John? Oh...and you also gift your fans with a new song, you lyric notepad Twitter teased on tour for days. All to say 'Love You For A Long Time' like the Stan's writing their own fan letters. Dear Maggie.
But who is this song that sounds like a combination of almost each element of every track off this years album, the falsettos of the top 'Dog Years' off the 'Now That The Light Is Fading' E.P., a beautiful B-side, or even the lead single of a new album (we can only hope), for an artist who has more gems on the cutting room floor already (see 'James') than most have in a greatest hits collection about? Romantic love. Friendship and family love. Band love and fan love. "It's about love in all forms," Maggie says on this infectious and instantly catchy track like the common cold this Autumn, that light fading still captures that summer evening feeling. "I want it to sound like the last days of summer" she adds with this release for what like a fountain of youth twenties firework we wish could be a forever feeling. Ledger Joker hanging out the car that looks like it's 66 road trippin' like the Red Hot Chili Peppers "two favourite allies" in a red 'Dog Years' video sweater. Complete for the artwork of a Joni sixties feeling photograph with Maggie Rogers handwritten logo script almost in instantly recognisable Springsteen signature across like an 'American Beauty' E.P.
Sounding "as wild and alive as new love feels". This fond folky Americana that sounds like something your Mamas and Papas used to listen to in California. "Came in like a vision from the old west wind/Like a bright new dream that I was stepping in/I saw your face and I knew it was a sign/And I still think about that moment all of the time", she sings. Singing about "getting lost in your diamond eyes" and finding what is her own signature sound that is as timeless as it will now be traditional to her, Maggie makes us all relate to our first loves when she talks about, "And in the morning when I'm waking up/I swear you're the first thing that I'm thinking of/I feel it in my body, know it in my mind/Oh, I, I'm gonna love you for a long time." We all know that loving feeling being brought back. It's kind of like 'Alaska'. Kind of like the first time we heard her sing. Knowing it was going to last forever. TIM DAVID HARVEY.
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